“Half of that goes to the bank for your college fund!”
That’s what my father told me in the eighth grade, when I got my first paycheck for waking up at 5:30 a.m. to ride my bike a few miles to Cool Springs Driving Range before school, where I plucked golf balls for a dollar an hour.
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